Enric Farrés Duran is a story teller, someone who continually blurs the line between the real and the fictional. His work is articulated through research, coincidences and fortuitous encounters and the possibility of making connections between different places, objects and circumstances. Farrés Duran creates narratives that reveal hidden and unexpected relationships, which in some cases involve different times and places. The story — narrated and written — plays an essential role in this process, and the information it provides is essential to our engaging with the process and the connections it establishes. His projects are formalized in installations, guided tours, books and videos.
Enric Farrés Duran (b.1983, Palafrugell) lives and works in Barcelona. He studied Art and Design at Escola Massana (Barcelona), where he currently teaches, and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. His practice embraces text, performance, painting and installation.
Recent solo shows include Encara no (Bombon projects, Barcelona 2023), Acid Love Forever (Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, 2022), Things that Happen (MACBA, Barcelona, 2021), Empezar por el medio (Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, 2018), Una cosa a fondo que probablemente no existe (Bombon projects, Barcelona, 2018), Res és Meu (Contemporary Art Center Bòlit, Girona, 2018), Una exposició de mirar (La Panera, Lleida, 2017), USELESS#2: Enric Farrés Duran. Paper Playing a Part (LACA, Los Angeles,2017), Encostar-se a um morto para se fazer invisível. (Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, 2017) and Cualquier objeto excepto un papel (Nogueras Blanchard, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 2016).
Recent group shows inlcude I Dream of A Large Studio -Shared Studios. Three Case Studies (Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, 2021), Materia prima (Contemporary Art Centre Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, 2017), Bibliotecas insólitas (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2017), El relato de una exposición (MAC, Mataró, 2017), Florilegi (Bombon projects, Barcelona, 2017), ZONA VIP (Passatge Studio, Barcelona, 2016), Establecer un principio de procedencia, Generaciones 2016 (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2016) and La realidad invocable (MACBA, Barcelona, 2015)
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
2021
2018
2017
2016
Selected group exhibitions
2021
2020
2019
2017
2016
2015